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Another Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Hey, it's your weekly reminder to come and watch the Friday Livestream! We sometimes play some video games on Linux and typically have some casual conversation with the chat to go with it. So yeah, maybe you should watch it?

Fort Triumph, a tactical RPG where you make use of the environment enters Early Access on April 26th

By Liam Dawe,
If you're like me and you love your turn-based tactical battles then Fort Triumph needs to be firmly on your purchasing radar.

Casual adventure RPG 'Hero of the Kingdom III' will release with Linux support this year

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Lonely Troops is back this year, as the casual adventure RPG Hero of the Kingdom III will release with Linux support.

Seafaring strategy game Nantucket now has a beta for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Nantucket is a seafaring strategy game that will have you chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling.

BadLands RoadTrip is an incredibly strange open-world FPS with customizable weapons

By Liam Dawe,
BadLands RoadTrip is an incredibly strange open-world FPS with customizable weapons, sadly not one I enjoyed even a moment of.

DXVK, the Vulkan compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 and Wine has a fresh release reducing CPU overhead

By Liam Dawe,
Since there's a lot of excitement around DXVK we've been following it closely and a fresh release made it out last night.

Nightdive Studios has released the source code for System Shock

By Liam Dawe,
I'm not entirely sure how useful it will be in the long run, but Nightdive Studios has released the source code for System Shock under the GPL.

Feral Interactive to show off Rise of the Tomb Raider on Linux next week live on Twitch

By Liam Dawe,
For those itching to see Rise of the Tomb Raider live on Linux before release, next week Feral Interactive will be showing it off.

Crusader Kings II is free to keep if you grab in the next two days

By BTRE,
The medieval grand strategy title/kinslaying-simulator has been made free to get for a limited time. There’s also a general sale of all of its DLC.

The latest teaser for the action adventure 'Undead Horde' from 10tons is out

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to become a Necromancer? Undead Horde from 10tons is starting to look really damn good and it's coming to Linux.

Indirect god sim 'Crest' released last month with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
How does it feel to be a god? You can find out as the indirect god sim 'Crest' released last month with Linux support.

A new Surviving Mars update is out, with a little tribute to the late Stephen Hawking & source code access

By Liam Dawe,
The rather engrossing survival strategy game Surviving Mars has a new update out, with a nice tribute to the late Stephen Hawking.

The Robocraft 'Reconnect Update' is now out for the build and battle game (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Robocraft, the free to play build and battle game will now allow you to reconnect to certain games if you get disconnected. UPDATED.

Turn-based strategy Flash Point: Fire Rescue is now on Steam and it's difficult

By Liam Dawe,
Fancy your chances rescuing people from fires? Flash Point: Fire Rescue will have you do just that and it's good.

Another look at some good Linux games going cheap

By Liam Dawe,
A day later than intended, but here's another look at some good Linux games that are currently going for cheap.

KeeperRL is a surprisingly engrossing mix of dungeon building, exploration and roguelike with a recent update

By Liam Dawe,
I've recently taken quite a liking to KeeperRL, a surprisingly good mix pulling in features from dungeon building, exploration and roguelikes to make quite an engrossing game. The developer also recently put out Alpha 24.

Retro-styled 3D vector shooter sphereFACE is confusing, but quite good

By Liam Dawe,
sphereFACE is an arcade shooter that will send your mind in spirals and it's actually pretty darn good.

The Rocket League 'Tournaments Update' is now out, official GOL tournament info

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Rocket League update is out, adding in a new tournaments feature so everyone can run their own.

Turn-based tactics game 'Depth of Extinction' continues improving, last round of First Access is up

By Liam Dawe,
Depth of Extinction is a retro-inspired turn-based tactics game, it's a little like XCOM with some rogue-lite features thrown in and it's getting better all the time.

RetroArch to gain a feature to improve input latency in the next release

By Liam Dawe,
RetroArch, the frontend for a number of emulators will gain an interesting feature to help improve input latency in the next version.